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Good As You: National Organization For Marriage Roundup

10/21/2011

Yesterday I showed you how NOM's key staffer and blog writer Thomas Peters was pushing an "excellent" interview with the head of the Catholic "gays shouldn't be gay" organization, mistakenly called Courage. Well now check this out. That same Thomas...

10/20/2011

NOM continues its trend of courting the "ex-gay"/"change" movement. The latest example comes courtesy of Thomas Peters, who is pushing an "excellent interview" with the executive director of the Catholic "change" organization Courage -- an interview where said E.D. repeatedly...

10/17/2011

On September 30, it was as "critically important" as NOM's Prop 8 signature collection efforts. On October 5, it was a "last chance" to stand against inclusive "force." On October 6 the push was "historic," with "success" the only acceptable...

10/14/2011

So last night, while poking around the public records hosted on the West Virginia Secretary State's website (because who doesn't do that on a Thursday evening?), I came across a large collection of documents, uploaded between December of 2010 and...

10/12/2011

Just like this morning's New Hampshire stop (complete with presidential candidate Rick Santorum), firsthand reports put the number in attendance at around twenty in total, including tour staff. Maybe rather than a bus, they should start renting a nice Mini...

10/10/2011

Over the weekend, the supposedly single-issue-focused National Organization For Marriage posted even more credence for the scientifically-rejected idea that gays can "change": [NOM Blog] With this, NOM is continuing its recent trend of moving further and further fringe, embracing fights...

10/05/2011

And now Maggie Gallagher will tell North Carolinians why they should write discrimination into their state's constitution: "You're children are going to be watching you, they're going to watching whether you think God's truth about marriage is important -- you...

At 3:15 PM on Saturday, Thomas Peters will be representing the National Organization For Marriage on a "Value Voters Summit" breakout panel: So what might we expect Thomas to tell these young conservatives? Well, if his Twitter feed is any...

10/04/2011

Over the past four years, the National Organization has been incredibly active. At least when it comes to purchasing web domain names, that is. Here are 135 hosted homes that I've been able to pinpoint as NOM-owned. Some are mildly...

10/03/2011

Historically, the National Organization For Marriage has pretended that the organization's only focus is on marriage and "protecting the faith communities that sustain it." But if incoming board chair John Eastman is to be believed, it's general disagreement with homosexuality...

NOM's incoming Board Chair, John Eastman, talking to National Catholic Register about his opposition and their "evil" goals: "Evil will be with us always, and it requires constant vigilance to defeat. I look at it as a litigator and an...

09/30/2011

National Organization For Marriage affiliate leader Jennifer Roback Morse: *AUDIO SOURCE: Michael Brown Interview [Catholic Radio of San Diego] The anti-LGBT wing of the modern conservative movement will go to any lengths to hurt us and our public image. I...

Jerry Buell's comments about gay marriages being part of a "cesspool" that made him want to vomit were so over the top that even longtime conservative flamethrower Chuck Colson spoke out against his verbal style. But the National Organization For...

09/29/2011

From president Brian Brown's latest National Organization For Marriage email blast: Not overstating? Well okay, Brian -- if you prefer the terms "embellishing," "exaggerating," or "fear-mongeringly hyperbolizing," then that's your prerogative. Though honestly, it's not Brian's overstating that concerns me...

09/28/2011

It’s unlikely that NOM will weigh in on California’s current discussion regarding inclusive teaching, since (a) going after such fair public school practices would prove that they want to stop more than marriage, and (b) going after such public school...

09/26/2011

If one does a YouTube search for Frank Turek, sorted by date of upload, two videos come back positioned one on top of the other: The first is that responsibility-shirking launch video that I showed you last week, where anti-LGBT...

"Courage" is a Catholic organization that pushes the "ex-gay" belief that people with "same-sex attractions" can be ministered out of homosexuality. A wholly scientifically-discredited belief, of course. Damian Goddard is the Canadian sportscaster who was released from his role as...

09/25/2011

Dear NOM Watcher, Life is marked by transitions. Birth. Death. Switching shampoos. Oh, and perhaps biggest for our interest: Marriage. So too, NOM. This week, we saw all kinds of NOM transitions, from the birth of a new group to...

09/23/2011

NOM describes it like this: "If you have been threatened, harassed, or made to feel afraid because you believe in the great, foundational truth of Genesis –we are born male and female and called to come together in love to...

The National Organization For Marriage has launched a ridiculous new project called the "Marriage Anti-Defamation Alliance" and made Frank Turek its first poster boy: What NOM won't tell you? That this Frank Turek goes WAY beyond simply opposing marriage equality...

09/22/2011

Back in April of 2003, when then-U.S.-Senator Rick Santorum made his unbelievably crude comments about gays and "man on dog" sex, newly installed National Organization For Marriage Chair John Eastman took to the Claremont Institute's blog to defend Santorum. Defend...

09/21/2011

Responding to Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley's stated support for marriage equality versus what she perceives to be his lack of support for "traditional marriage," NOM's Maggie Gallagher shared these thoughts with the conservative Daily Caller: “It makes little sense to...

09/17/2011

The National Organization For Marriage has sent out multiple press releases, Tweets, Facebook messages, and assorted other digital smoke signals claiming that marriage was the issue that lost David Weprin the NY-9 congressional race he was once favored to win....

09/15/2011

To help defeat David Weprin in New York's 9th Congressional District, the National Organization for Marriage got in bed with Rabbi Wallerstein. Got in bed with a man who says God will destroy the world because of gays' legal unions:...

09/14/2011

The degree to which a hyper-motivated, largely faith-based coalition was able to use marital bias to drive votes against the pro-equality Democrat will be debated today. But when it comes to the special election in New York's 9th congressional district,...

09/13/2011

Not only is the man who the National Organization For Marriage recruited to record robocalls, Rabbi Wallerstein, on record saying that gays cause earthquakes, but he's also on record admitting that he knows absolutely nothing about the candidate for whom...

09/12/2011

In advance of tomorrow's special election in NY's 9th Congressional district, the National Organization For Marriage just launched a big robocall campaign against David Weprin/for Bob Turner. A campaign featuring this guy, Rabbi Zecharia Wallerstein: "Why do you have earthquakes?...

09/09/2011

On Wednesday, I told you about NOM's hefty contribution towards defeating David Weprin / electing Bob Turner in next Tuesday's NY-9 special election. Now the House the Bias Built has revealed the three targeted mailers they are using to get...

09/01/2011

On Tuesday, the National Organization For Marriage posted the following "60 Minutes"/Vanity Fair poll: [CBS News] Alongside the poll, NOM wrote the presumptive line: "We're guessing the 'I don't knows' and 'no responses' are also opposed." So okay, let's consider...

Today is September 1st, so that means the National Organization For Marriage's much touted "$100K Challenge" is over and done. So how'd the anti-equality group do? Let's look at the final tallies. First the numbers as they stood on day...

08/29/2011

So okay, groups like the National Organization For Marriage can keep defending Frank Turek as just a mere "marriage protector" who's being targeted by "bigots and bullies" if that's what they care to do: [SOURCE: NOM Blog] But here's the...

08/27/2011

"OM, NOM, NOM, NOM, NOM." Dear NOM Watcher, Just a few short years ago, when any of us heard the sound "NOM," we thought of only one thing: Devouring food. The onomatopoeia signified some sort of Cookie-Monster-like dining experience, the...

08/26/2011

The National Organization For Marriage loves to give off a nonpartisan/bipartisan vibe. Particularly when it comes to something like the Defense of Marriage Act, the organization is quite fond of highlighting any sort of Democratic support, past or present, as...

I've already shown you how Brian Brown's weekly newsletter -- which last week, as you might remember, attempted to link gays to pedophilia -- this time refers to the investigation into Florida teacher Jerry Buell as a "fatwa" that's part...

08/25/2011

The National Organization For Marriage continues to prove that the agenda goes beyond the civil marriage debate on which the group purports to focus: SOURCE: NOM Blog Linking to the American Family Association's fringe, highly skewed One News Now for...

08/24/2011

Does Maggie Gallagher still oppose basic anti-discrimination protections for gays? These days, as she invests so much stock in denying civil marriage rights to gays, you're unlikely to hear the National organization For Marriage chair say she stands against anti-discrimination...

08/19/2011

The National Organization For Marriage doesn't have an official civil unions policy. So here, let me write a brief sketch of what is, quite undeniably, NOM's organizational stance on this, a crucial matter that comes before both them and us:...

08/18/2011

Regular NOM Watchers might remember the National Organization For Marriage’s 100K challenge. That’s the one where a nameless, faceless “generous donor” promised to give NOM one buck for every Facebook “like,” Twitter follow, and text message they receive between June...

08/17/2011

*Note to readers: As part of a new partnership, I will be writing select pieces exclusively for NOMExposed.Org. These pieces (which I will excerpt here under a 'NOM Exposed' label) will pertain to the National Organization For Marriage, that org's...

This blip is currently running on NOM blog: SOURCE: [NOM Blog] Right, so I wish these Michigan poll numbers were different, no doubt. But the larger point for me, here, in terms of the opposition group that posted the poll,...

08/16/2011

And now a "culture war" vocabulary lesson from The National Organization For Marriage's Jennifer Roback Morse: "You may have noticed that I do not use the term “same sex marriage” very often. In fact, I am making a conscious decision...

If you read this site yesterday, you probably saw the article wherein conservative columnist and University of North Carolina Wilmington professor Mike Adams used his dual positions and access to condemn his school's diversity office for providing a list of...

08/08/2011

The National Organization For Marriage is currently touting this PPP poll out of Jersey: SOURCE: NOM Blog Okay, so first and foremost: Civil unions are never going to work and are always in eventual need of a full upgrade. There...

08/06/2011

Ashley Madison is a website geared to and almost exclusively utilized by married heterosexuals: [SOURCE: NOM Blog] But of course wandering heterosexuals do not make for good political scapegoats, fundraisers, or "let the people vote" street marches. So expect the...

08/04/2011

There's been a lot of talk in the past day or so abut the National Organization For Marriage, its online outreach arms, and its regard for the LGBT bloggers that have led the charge against the group. So let's discuss...

08/01/2011

National Organization For Marriage staffers ably illustrate their own organizational misdirection: [SOURCE: NOM Blog] When can we expect your march-in-the-streets protest on this, NOM? Wouldn't want you to seem hypocritical or anything. Not that I want to outlaw divorce, no-fault...